Born Again

 

“The heart of Christmas is bigger than simply a baby in a Manger… It’s incarnation, it’s God with us… and for what purpose?

To glorify the Father… and to save fallen humanity in an expression of love that has never been matched… The beauty of Christmas is ‘His birth enabled our new birth’… The birth of Jesus enabled us to be “born again…”

  • The best way for us to meet the heart of Christmas is to glorify the Father, and to receive the love of Jesus, to be “born again…”

 

John 1:11-14

“He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name”

  • “believe” this is not a noun but a verb… God through John is calling us to an act of faith, calling us to be “born again…”
  • This is more than just an assent to ideas… but active life changing faith…

 

John 3:1-17

 

Being “born again” (v3) means that our life is spiritually renewed and saved…

  • The idea is that we’re regenerated, recreated, transformed by the Holy Spirit…
  • When were born again our attitudes change, our thinking changes, our actions change…
  • It’s not simply the change of outward behaviors… but inwardly we are different, changing the outward expression of our lives… In short, because of what Jesus does in our hearts our lives look more like His desires for us…

 

Luke 11:13

We still have some residual imprint of the image of God in our lives… But relative to the perfection of God no one is good…

  • Our lives are not graded on a curve…

 

Mark 10:18

  • We must be born again because we could never be good enough to earn our salvation…

 

We must first repent and turn away from our sins… and turn to God… put our faith and truth in Him… He must become the Lord and leader of our lives….

 

Titus 3:3-7

We must be “born again” to be saved, there is no middle ground here, to ever experience Heaven being “Born Again” must be the reality of our lives…

 

You must first repent and turn away from your sins… and turn to God… put your faith and trust in Him… He must become the Lord and leader of your life….”

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